Awesome-Selfhosted
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A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Actively maintained
Real momentum
The most common licence mistake founders make is assuming a public repository is usable. Without an explicit licence, default copyright applies and you have no permission to copy, modify or distribute the work. Some of these are simply unmaintained metadata; the fix is an email to the maintainer asking them to add a licence, not a fork.
No licence means all rights reserved. Publishing code on GitHub grants viewing and forking within the platform, nothing more — commercial use is copyright infringement. This dataset tracks 349 No licence projects (21% of 1665 total), 157 of them actively maintained, led by Awesome-Selfhosted with 315k stars. Verified against repository metadata as of August 2026; this is engineering guidance, not legal advice.
Running the software inside your own company, without redistributing it, is permitted under every licence family here except undeclared/proprietary code.
Permitted. You can host, modify, close your changes and charge for access with no obligation beyond attribution.
Restricted. Either derivative work must be released under the same licence, or the licence explicitly forbids commercialising a fork.
| Project | Category | Stars | Maintenance | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awesome-Selfhosted | Altro | 315k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| RustDesk | Remote Desktop Application | 122k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Supabase | Backend as a service | 108k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Hugo | Altro | 90k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| LobeHub | Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) | 82k | Actively maintained | ⊘ Proprietary |
| Netdata | Observability and monitoring | 80k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Font-Awesome | Altro | 77k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Grafana | Observability and monitoring | 76k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| OpenBB Terminal | Financial Service | 72k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Prometheus | Altro | 66k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Astro | Altro | 62k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Minio | Cloud Storage | 61k | Slowing down | Undeclared |
| Remotion | Altro | 57k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Jekyll | Altro | 52k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Milvus | Altro | 46k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Logseq | Notetaking | 45k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| PingCAP | Relational database | 40k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Insomnia | Altro | 40k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| MindsDB | ML Ops | 40k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Mattermost | Messaging | 39k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Spacedrive | File Hosting | 39k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Mattermost | Communication | 39k | Actively maintained | ⊘ Proprietary |
| Umami | Website analytics | 38k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Drone | Altro | 38k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
| Trilium.cc | Notetaking | 38k | Actively maintained | Undeclared |
Alternative to Other lists of free / software
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Alternative to TeamViewer
Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone
Alternative to Firebase, Backend-as-a-Service
Backend server with REST APIs to manage core backend needs
Alternative to Static website generator
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
Modern design AI chat framework supporting multiple AI providers, one click install MCP Marketplace and Artifacts / Thinking.
Alternative to DataDog, NewRelic
Application monitoring and observability platform
Alternative to Icons
Alternative to DataDog, NewRelic
Observability and data visualization platform
Alternative to Bloomberg
Investment research for everyone
Alternative to Time-series database
Alternative to Static website generator
The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Alternative to Amazon S3
S3 compatible object storage
Alternative to Programmatic videos
Alternative to Static website generator
Alternative to Vector database
Alternative to Roam Research, Note-taking/ Knowledge management, Note-taking / Personal Knowledge Management
Knowledge base manager
Alternative to Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud Spanner
NewSQL database that supports HTAP workloads
Alternative to API development
Alternative to BigQuery ML
In-database machine learning platform
Alternative to Slack, Team communication, Chat & Team Communication
Enterprise communication platform for developers
Alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive
Cross-platform file manager, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem (VDFS) written in Rust
Communication
Platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle, can be integrated with Gitlab (alternative to Slack).
Alternative to Google Analytics
Google Analytics alternative
Alternative to Continuous integration
Alternative to Evernote, Onenote
Personal knowledge base
Alternative to Artificial intelligence chatbot/ LLM
Alternative to Okta, Auth0, User authentication
User authentication and session management framework
Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Live chat
Customer communication platform (alternative to Intercom and Zendesk).
Alternative to Google Vertex AI, Algolia
Vector similarity search engine with extended filtering support
Alternative to Heroku, Platform-as-a-Service/ PaaS, Platform as a Service / PaaS
An open source PAAS alternative to Heroku
Alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, Monitoring/Observability
Application monitoring and observability platform
Alternative to Kdb+
Database designed to process time series data
Alternative to File uploader
Alternative to Tenable Nessus
Vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL
Alternative to Tailscale, OpenVPN
Zero Configuration Mesh VPN for Business
Alternative to Retool, Internal tools
Build and automate internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, CRUD apps, and more, in minutes (alternative to Outsystems, Retool, Mendix, Appian).
Alternative to Continuous integration
Alternative to Trello, Notion, Asana, Kanban board
Alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
Alternative to AWS Kendra, QnA Maker
NLP platform to build enterprise-grade semantic search
Alternative to Icons
Alternative to Heroku
Universal Infrastructure as Code
Alternative to Kdb+
Database designed to process time series data
Alternative to Bitly, Link shortener
Open-source Bitly Alternative with built-in analytics
Alternative to Code hosting & collaboration
Alternative to Fivetran
Data orchestration platform for a modern data stack
Alternative to Kdb+
Database designed to process time series data
Alternative to Zapier
Workflows as code platform
Alternative to Fivetran
Data integration platform
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No licence means all rights reserved. Publishing code on GitHub grants viewing and forking within the platform, nothing more — commercial use is copyright infringement. The most common licence mistake founders make is assuming a public repository is usable. Without an explicit licence, default copyright applies and you have no permission to copy, modify or distribute the work. Some of these are simply unmaintained metadata; the fix is an email to the maintainer asking them to add a licence, not a fork.
349 of 1665 tracked projects carry a No licence licence — about 21%. 157 of them show real momentum (commits in most of the last twelve months plus a recent release), so the practical shortlist is smaller than the raw count suggests.
Licence breach is copyright infringement, and the usual consequence is not a lawsuit — it is a failed diligence review. Acquirers and Series A investors run automated licence scans over your dependency tree; an unresolved copyleft or source-available dependency in a closed product either delays the deal or gets priced into it. The cheap fix is choosing correctly at week one.
No. A public repository with no licence file grants you nothing beyond what the hosting platform's terms allow. Default copyright applies: all rights reserved.
Licence data comes from repository metadata and can lag a relicensing event. Confirm the LICENSE file in the repository before shipping. This page is engineering guidance, not legal advice.
IdeaProof checks whether your idea is already built, how saturated the category is, and where the remaining wedge sits — in about two minutes.
Validate your idea freeSearch this database by category and by the commercial product you would replace. It covers 1665 projects across 130 categories, each mapped to the paid tool it substitutes. If your category shows a "Crowded" verdict, a maintained free version almost certainly exists and your positioning has to account for it.
No. It means free is your price anchor. Plenty of large companies were built next to a good open-source project — the ones that failed were the ones selling the same job at a price the free tool made indefensible. Find the part of the job the project deliberately does not do, and sell that.
Each category gets a 0–100 score built from three inputs: how many implementations exist, what share of them are still actively maintained, and how far ahead the leading project is compared with the category median. 62+ is Crowded, 38–61 Contested, under 38 Open. 11 categories are Crowded and 88 are Open.